Simon's life map

In his first years simon lived in a small town/ village far away from London called Gwernaffeld, where he grew up wanting to be a teacher...jaja. Later, in high school he started to play guitar in punk bands, some kind of The Clash style. One of the things he regret at this age was running away from home to go to a David Bowie concert!.
A frightening experience he remember was the travel to Coroico (a litle town in Bolivia), the only way to get there was by bus, but the way up was really dangerous (it was in the middle of the mountain).
In the present he likes staying at home with his wife, although he has many activities during the week one of the things he enjoy and he is most proud of are the songs he've written...he have been playing guitar since he was 16!...he is a music lover and still pretend to write many more songs. ( he's just waiting to quit his job and become a musicien...jajaja)
I just hope we could hear something sometime =)

Book review

Book review_ "Historias de cronopios y famas"_ J. Cortázar
This is the last book i remember i liked very much. I’ve been reading books from this great author since high school, so i already knew the type of literature i was in front of... Cortazar’s oniric-freak world, short stories, dense paragraphs, interesting characters that live in this limbo between the real-surreal world, narrated in metaphors that inmerse you in it.

Two years ago, a friend of mine that also like Cortazar, told me about this particular title...the first thing i ask her about it was: ..." what’ s a cronopio??!"...She couldn’t answer me that, so she read the book to make it easier for me. She didn’t end the page before i ask her to lend it to me.

The book is divided on 4 parts: instructions manual, Rare ocupations, Plastic material and historias de cronopios y famas. Each one contains many short one- page stories. In the last part (the one i remember), he, basically describes different costumes, lenguages and, most important, different ways o seing life of some undifined beings categorized in: cronopios, famas and esperanzas, who live in the same world, but in parallel dimensions.

This isn’t a fantastic story like Tolken’s Lord of the ring or anything like that, it’s just an abstraction of the real world, real life, where you actually can get the essence of human nature by different psychological profiles characterized by this strange beings in surreal- humoristic stories that undermine the trivial-mechanized rationalism of the everyday world.

Great-funny book...unavoidably makes you think about everyone else and even yourself as one of these beings. I laughed a lot ....read it !

Lyrics : "seven days in sunny june"

The pebbles you've arranged

In the sand, they're strange

They speak to me like constellations as we lie here

There's a magic I can hold

Your smile of honey gold

And that you never seem to be in short supply of

[Chorus:]

Oooh, so baby let's get it on

Drinking wine and killing timeSitting in the summer sun

You know I've wanted you so long

Why do you have toDrop that bomb on me?

Lazy days, crazy dolls

You said we've been friends too long

Seven days in sunny June

Were long enough to bloom

The flowers on the summer dress you wore in spring

The way we laughed as one

And then you dropped the bomb

That I've known you too long

For us to have a thing

[Chorus x2]

Could it be this?

The stories in your eyes

The silent wings

You'll fly away on

Seven days in sunny June

Were long enough to bloom

The flowers on the sunbeam dress you wore in spring

Yeah, yeah, the way we laughed as one

Why did you drop the bomb on me?

[Chorus]

Could it be this?

The honeysuckle blessings you seem to show me

Could it be this?

For seven days in June I wasn't lonely

Could it be this?

You never gave me time to say I love you

Could it be this?

I know you don't believe me but it's so true

Don't walk away from me, girl

I read the sories in your eyes

And you've been telling me We've been friends for too long

Why do you want to drop the bomb?

Telling meWe've been friends for too long

Why do you want to drop the bomb?

You tell me we've been friends for too long,

yeahI think I love youI think I love you

Why do you want to drop that bomb?

One song i like

This is a Jamiroquai song called "Seven Days In Sunny June", from the album Dynamite.
I first heard this song two years ago, in 05' summer...back then i was in the first months of the relationship with my ex boyfriend; i was just in the fun non-figth part of it, and this is a very summer-love song... it fit perfectly whit my situation at that moment.
This is one of the reasons i like it so much, but i also like the video of the song too. (just as ismael, im an audio-visual kind of person). The video is basically about people having fun in this green natural place where the band is playing, vocals dancing, barbecue, pool, bubbles,many colours under a shiny sun. It's simple, that probably why i like it.
And musically...I've heard jamiroquai since high school, and i enjoy a lot this funky-dance-jazz-pop kind of music, sepecially in this song. I love acoustic guitars, groovy bass, jay kay's voice, soft drums and melody.
It summery vacation-relaxing, makes me realize that vacations aren' t so far.

I forgot this:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2141710,00.html

Andy Warhol: a celebration of life ...and death

Daily we still can see the legacy of warhol's work in the actual world. His images, paintings and graphic techniques have been reused in many type of works in many cultures/ countries, but these art pieces haven´t been understood in their original content. (we must remember they were created 50 years ago, so we probably won't even recognize most of the characters in them).
That's why in the national gallery complex, there will be an exposition of Andy's work related to the dramatic and strange side of the artist.
It includes themes like: portraitist commemorate, car crashes, suicide, skulls, death and painting like suicidal Marilyn, widowed Jakie, some drawings and photographs.
These radical portraitist, frightening images also incorporate the celebrity- mass media theme, but the idea is also to show a much deeper side of the artist , artist that passed the test of time.